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Levchin Prizes: Joan Daemen (AES and SHA-3) and Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin
- tptacek 10y agoThis prize is awarded at the Real World Crypto conference, which has become a pretty big deal. RWC is unlike normal academic crypto conferences in that it hosts practical engineering work and case studies from people deploying crypto --- but the attendance list includes many leading people in the academic field. Last year's Levchin winners were Phil Rogaway (a cryptographer of fame comparable to that of Joan Daemen) and the miTLS team (which discovered the Triple Handshake, SMACK, FREAK, Logjam, and SLOTH TLS attacks).
- mikecb 10y agoFor those of us unaware, the Levchin the prize is named after is famous for...?
- tptacek 10y ago... is Max Levchin, of Paypal fame.
- mikecb 10y agofor some reason I thought there would be more story.
- tptacek 10y agoHe likes cryptography and once had dinner with Dan Boneh and they decided to start an award for crypto contributions. I think? that's the whole story.
- wolf550e 10y agoWho is on the committee that decides who gets the prize?
- tptacek 10y agoDan Boneh, Aggelos Kiayias, Brian LaMacchia, Kenny Paterson, Tom Ristenpart, Tom Shrimpton, and Nigel Smart. (A pretty intense group).
- jtdowney 10y agoDan went into a little more of the backstory last year during the first awarding of the Levchin prizes. If I recall correctly, he and Max had been long time acquaintances and Dan even advised Max while he was working on some of the early PayPal technology. Max told a story about Dan leaving his own birthday party to help Max debug a CSPRNG.
- zx2c4 10y agoCongrats! Probably this crowd already knows about Daemen for AES and Moxie from Signal and NYTimes and his HN comments here. Trevor Perrin might not be as familiar of a name, but it should be. He's responsible for much of the meaty crypto underlying the Signal Protocol, and his most recent project, Noise [1], is a real marvel. A prize well deserved. [1] http://noiseprotocol.org/ http://noiseprotocol.org/